Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Pray in Your Own Home: ‘Face Arrest’

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence
in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”--
Thomas Jefferson, 1799

But what if the Constitution
is no longer considered valid Tom?

Pray in Your Own
Home: ‘Face Arrest’

By de Andréa,

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Published September 4, 2016

If
America isn’t already a Police State then it is for sure’ rapidly becoming one!
And the attack on Christians from all
directions and all government agencies is obviously escalating.

“I was terrified that night. It was one of the worst
nights of my life.” Said Mary Ann Sause, a former nurse in Louisburg, Kansas. The officers said, “that’s just a piece of
paper,’ that ‘doesn’t work here.”as she showed them a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

That’s interesting because Louisburg police officers take an oath to
uphold the Constitution: "On
my honor, I will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character or the
public trust. I will always have the courage to hold myself and others
accountable for our actions. I will always uphold the Constitution, my community,
and the agency I serve."

A shocking incident of police officers in Louisburg, Kansas, ordering
a woman on threat of arrest, to stop praying inside her own home and telling
her that “the Constitution doesn’t work here”has been elevated to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals after a district judge dismissed the complaint. Apparently the Louisburg courts don’t follow
the Constitution either.

The case is now in the hands of lawyers with the First Liberty Institute since Mary Anne Sause, a retired nurse on disability, handled the
initial’ claim on her own.

The result was that Judge Julie Robinson granted a motion from the
city to dismiss the case, (the grounds for dismissal were not stated.) and told
the women she wasn’t allowed to amend her complaint. Which is also interesting, because according to:

Civil Rule60-215. State of Kansas.Amended and supplemental pleadings.(a) Amendments before trial.
(1) Amending is a matter of course.
A party may amend its pleading/complaint once as a matter of course within:

(A) 21 days after serving it; or

(B) if the pleading is one to which a responsive pleading is
required, 21 days after service of a responsive pleading or 21 days after
service of a motion under subsections (b), (e) or (f) of K.S.A. 60-212, and
amendments thereto, whichever is earlier.

“Ms.
Sause said that Officers [Lee] Stevans and [Jason] Lindsey commanded her to
stop praying, under threat of arrest. And they did so without any legitimate
law-enforcement justification,” her lawyers said. “This is a plain violation of her clearly
established First Amendment rights to pray in her own home and to be free from
official retaliation for exercising that right.”

The appeals court is being asked to reverse the lower court’s
decision, or, at a minimum, order it back to the lower court with orders to
allow an amendment.

“No
American should ever be told that they cannot pray in their own home,” said Stephanie Taub, associate counsel
for First Liberty Institute. “The right to pray in the privacy of one’s
own home is clearly protected by the First Amendment.”

The Story:

First Liberty said Sause was home on the night of Nov. 22, 2013,
when two officers approached her door and demanded that she open it.

She explained that they would not identify themselves and she could
not see them through a peephole, so she didn’t open the door.

“As
a survivor of rape, Sause never opens her door to anyone she can’t identify,” First Liberty said.

The officers left, but they came back and again demanded to be
allowed in, this time identifying themselves.

“When
Sause came to the door, this time opening the door, the officers asked why she
didn’t answer the door the first time. Ms. Sause saw a pocket Constitution,
given to her by her congressman, lying on a nearby table and showed it to the
officers, who still refused to explain the reason for their appearance. One
officer laughed and said, ‘That’s just a piece of paper’ that ‘doesn’t work here.'”

Once inside, they “harassed” her, she said, at one point telling her
to get ready to go to jail.

She was frightened and asked permission to pray, and one officer
agreed. The other, who was illegally searching the house without a warrant, a
violation of the Fourth Amendment, then came back into the room and ordered her
to “stop
praying,” the complaint explains.

They then “flipped through the codebook to see how
they could charge her,” finally choosing “interference and disorderly
conduct.” They didn’t elaborate as to how her conduct was disorderly or
what exactly se interfered with.

At the end of their visit, they finally explained “they
were there because someone in the neighborhood thought her radio was too loud.”
Which would be a charge of disturbing the peace and not interference
with anything or disorderly conduct.

She filed complaints with the city, and got no response before going
to court.

Judge Robinson concluded that the officer’s order for her to stop
praying “may have offended her,” but it was not “a burden on her ability to
exercise her religion.” Wrong again! Not allowing her to exercise her
freedom of religion especially in her own home, is in fact of law and reason, a
burden on her ability to exercise her religion.

“The
right to worship in the privacy of one’s own home, free from governmental
interference, is a fundamental right – secured to every American by the First
and Fourteenth Amendments,” said First Liberty. “As the Supreme Court has recognized
repeatedly, this foundational principle is enshrined directly in the text of
the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause.”

The woman said the officers forced her to stop praying not in
furtherance of a “legitimate law enforcement objective, but instead so they could
continue to berate and harass her.”

The officers, for example, told her to “move away” and said “no
one liked her.”

“The
district court’s conclusion that being forced to stop praying in one’s own home
– at the command of a police officer – ‘does not constitute a burden on [Ms.
Sause’s] ability to exercise her religion’ is particularly worrisome,” the lawyers explained. To
echo Justice Alito’s recent sentiments: “If this is a sign of how religious liberty
claims will be treated in the years ahead, those who value religious freedom
have cause for great concern.”

“She
said that the officers unlawfully interfered with her constitutional protected
religious liberty – the right to pray in her own home,” they said.

“The
police are supposed to make you feel safe, but I was terrified that night. It
was one of the worst nights of my life,” Sause said.

THE BOTTOM LINE: The Officers said, “The Constitution doesn’t work here!” Has
America already become a Police State? Is an Orwellian nightmare becoming our reality?
Has America arrived at the point of being a de facto Gestapo SS police state?
Moreover, what is it that has led to an out-of-control government that
increasingly ignores Constitutional law and the rights of American Citizens? Could
it be that Judge Julie
Robinsonthought
she could get away withjust
dismissing
the case because Ms.
Sause was representing herself? I mean after all Ms. Sause is not
a lawyer and likely doesn’t know court procedure much less all the civil codes.

The
police violated the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments as well as violated
their Oath of Office not to mention false arrest which the officers said was
for “interference and disorderly conduct,” for PRAYING IN HER OWN HOME.

In
any event her constitutional rights were obviously violated by the Louisburg police. If you
agree then Click on this to send an email to your representatives, if you don’t tell them what is going on in this country
then it is likely that at least a few of them have no idea. Moreover, this kind of thing if not stopped,
spreads like a forest on fire.

Next,
it will be your Constitutional rights being violated by the Gestapo storm
troopers…

See
something, say something!

Thanks
for listening my friend!

-
de Andréa

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